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I show that cooperative exclusion processes with selective kinetic constraints exhibit fluctuation-induced forces that can be attractive or repulsive, depending on the density of boundary reservoirs, when their density-dependent diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Mauro Sellitto

We show that Casimir-force calculations for a finite number of non-overlapping obstacles can be mapped onto quantum-mechanical billiard-type problems which are characterized by the scattering of a fictitious point particle off the very same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andreas Wirzba

The Casimir effect for parallel plates satisfying the Dirichlet boundary condition in the context of effective QED coming from a six-dimensional Nielsen-Olesen vortex solution of the Abelian Higgs model with fermions coupled to gravity is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-26 Hongbo Cheng

In the presence of an external field, the imposition of specific boundary conditions can lead to interesting new manifestations of the Casimir effect. In particular, it is shown here that even a single conducting plate may experience a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pervez Hoodbhoy

A general, exact formula is derived for the expectation value of the electromagnetic energy density of an inhomogeneous absorbing and dispersive dielectric medium in thermal equilibrium, assuming that the medium is well approximated as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 F. S. S. Rosa , D. A. R. Dalvit , P. W. Milonni

We reexamine the Casimir effect for the rectangular cavity with two or three equal edges in the presence of compactified universal extra dimension. We derive the expressions for the Casimir energy and discuss the nature of Casimir force. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Hongbo Cheng

We study the finite temperature Casimir interaction between a cylinder and a plate using the exact formula derived from the Matsubara representation and the functional determinant representation. We consider the scalar field with Dirichlet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-12 L. P. Teo

We explore the non-linear dynamics of two parallel periodically patterned metal surfaces that are coupled by the zero-point fluctuations of the electromagnetic field between them. The resulting Casimir force generates for asymmetric…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thorsten Emig

We study the situation where two point like mirrors are placed in the vacuum state of a scalar field in a two-dimensional spacetime. Describing the scattering upon the mirrors by transmittivity and reflectivity functions obeying unitarity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

The Casimir effect in a dispersive and absorbing multilayered system is considered adopting the (net) vacuum-field pressure point of view to the Casimir force. Using the properties of the macroscopic field operators appropriate for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. S. Tomas

$\mathrm{O}(N)$ vector models in three dimensions, when defined in a geometry with a compact direction and tuned to criticality, exhibit long-range fluctuations which induce a Casimir effect. The strength of the resulting interaction is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Andrea Bulgarelli , Michele Caselle , Alessandro Nada , Marco Panero

Critical Casimir effect appears when critical fluctuations of an order parameter interact with classical boundaries. We investigate this effect in the setting of a Landau-Ginzburg model with continuous symmetry in the presence of quenched…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-10 G. O. Heymans , N. F. Svaiter , B. F. Svaiter , G. Krein

The geometry dependence of Casimir forces is significantly more pronounced in the presence of thermal fluctuations due to a generic geometry-temperature interplay. We show that the thermal force for standard sphere-plate or cylinder-plate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Alexej Weber , Holger Gies

We study theoretically the dynamical Casimir effect in an exciton-polariton condensate that is suddenly created by an ultrashort laser pulse at normal incidence. As a consequence of the abrupt change of the quantum vacuum, Bogoliubov…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-15 Selma Koghee , Michiel Wouters

Quantum fluctuations in vacuum can exert a dissipative force on moving objects, which is known as Casimir friction. Especially, a rotating particle in the vacuum will eventually slow down due to the dissipative Casimir friction. Here, we…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-09 Qing-Dong Jiang , Frank Wilczek

The confinement of long-ranged critical fluctuations in the vicinity of second-order phase transitions in fluids generates critical Casimir forces acting on confining surfaces or among particles immersed in a critical solvent. This is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 O. A. Vasilyev , S. Dietrich

We study the critical Casimir force for a film geometry in the Ising universality class. We employ a homogeneous adsorption preference on one of the confining surfaces, while the opposing surface exhibits quenched random disorder, leading…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-04 Francesco Parisen Toldin

The Casimir effect describes the attractive force arising due to quantum fluctuations of the vacuum electromagnetic field between closely spaced conducting plates. Traditionally, zeta-regularization is employed in calculations to address…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Ching-Hsuan Yen

Some properties of an ideal gas of massive bosons in a mean field potential and, confined between two infinite parallel slabs in a d-dimensional configuration space are investigated systematically. Here, one particle density of states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-03 G. M. Bhuiyan

The Casimir effect refers to the existence of a macroscopic force between conducting plates in vacuum due to quantum fluctuations of fields. These forces play an important role, among other things, in the design of nano-scale mechanical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Dimitra Karabali